Oberlin Dance Company & The Contemporary Music Ensemble

Two revivals and a premiere

Friday, May 11, 2012, 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 12, 2012, 8 p.m.

Tickets: $8 Public, $6 Seniors/OC Staff & Faculty, $4 Students (purchase tickets)
All tickets $3 more at the door
Location: Hall Auditorium (directions)

Carter McAdams, choreographer
Tim Weiss, conductor

The Oberlin Dance Company and the Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) unite for two performances of revivals and a premiere showcasing six of Oberlin’s faculty composers. Reich’s Eight Lines requires the orchestra to break with tradition and move about the stage as they perform on their instruments. Honey on My Lips, featuring Cleveland Arts Prize winner and Visiting Professor of Percussion Jamey Haddad, is choreographed for 12 dancers and is set to music by four African composers. The premiere consists of six captivating scores—each by an Oberlin faculty composer—on a 1959 home recording of Carter McAdams’s father playing popular songs on stride piano. This special collaboration between two of Oberlin’s highly regarded departments will be a treat not to be missed! Program presented by the Oberlin Theater and Dance Program and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.